Quotes About Competition

When you're young, you don't think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You don't think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.

Nice one, Megan!" Coach Leonard called. "The rest of you are making me look bad! Let's go!" This time the other center forward glowered full force at Megan when they toed the line. "Beginner's luck," she said. Megan ignored her, knowing she would formulate a comeback five hours from now--one she would never have the guts to deliver anyway. Instead, she'd just make this girl eat her dust.

If only I'd been there to cheer him on, he might have won.

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People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.

It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

resent her, or feel like she was so much smarter than them that it was annoying. She played field hockey well enough that

The first law of business: Make the rules or your rivals will

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals.

But it cannot happen unless private industry is allowed to flourish in a system of free-enterprise. The problem with this option

Negotiation scholars have observed this phenomenon so often we have a name for it: "escalation of commitment." People lose sight of their real goals in competitive situations and pay far too much money, spend too much time, or sacrifice too many other interests for the privilege of saying they have won.

In auction situations, the final bidder overpays so often that economists call the accompanying feeling of regret the "winner's curse.

I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.

GIRL'S STORY #7: THE HARD-TO-PLEASE MOMMA Momma, I got a B, the daughter said. Who got an A? Momma answered. Momma, I showed in the track meet. Who placed? Momma answered. Momma, I placed in the track meet. Who won? Momma answered. The daughter was chosen Homecoming Queen, the daughter ran all the way home, Momma, Momma, the most wonderful thing happened, I was chosen attendant to the Homecoming Queen. Who's Queen? Momma answered. I am, said the daughter.

I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

I've always had an interest in sports across the board.

He was skilled----at the end of the level, he could make Mario land at the top of the flagpole, something Sadie had never mastered. Although Sadie liked to be the player, there was a pleasure to watching someone who was a dexterous player---it was like watching a dance. He never looked over at her. He cleared the first boss battle, and the words BUT OUR PRINCESS IS IN ANOTHER CASTLE appeared on the screen.

You would think women would want to stick together when there weren't that many of them, but they never did. It was as if being a woman was a disease that you didn't wish to catch. As long as you didn't associate with the other women, you could imply to the majority, the men: I'm not like those other ones.

Sam blew out 10 candles and in the distance Mary Lou Retton received a perfect 10 on her floor routine. And he almost felt like he, by blowing out the 10 candles at the precise moment that he had, had been what caused her to get the perfect 10. He fanaticized that the universe was a Rube Goldberg machine. If he had blown out only 9 candles, maybe the Romanian girl would have won instead.

Sadie had invented a game where if Naomi called bedtime before Sadie did for seven nights in a row, Naomi received a prize. Yes, it was manipulative and basically bribery, but it was also effective

I què és l'amor, al capdavall -va dir l'Alabaster-, tret del desig irracional de deixar de banda la competitivitat evolutiva per facilitar el viatge d'algú altre a través de la vida?

Winning is accepting that there are some races a person cannot win.

A good game, like Ichigo, was hard, but fair. The "unfair game" was life itself.